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Hello! Welcome to my blog. My name is Marianne and I live in Melbourne with my husband and our very fluffy cat, Babycat. (Who, at 7 years old, is hardly a kitten anymore but she will always be our baby!) I grew up in London and moved to Melbourne aged 22 for adventure and for love, which turned out to be a great idea as we are now happily married. I love vintage, especially the 1930s to the 1950s, and can skip happily over some of the 1960s to enjoy lots of that beautiful and otherworldly 1970s stuff. Here I write about my life in Melbourne and the things that interest me: clothes (especially of the vintage kind), beauty, makeup, food, interiors, travel, books, films (old ones please), going out, staying home, cocktails in bars, dinners in restaurants, breakfasts in cafes, walking in parks, biking down backstreets, taking photographs in conspicuous places, drinking coffee in bed, my endless love of platform shoes, and sometimes cats, too.

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Saturday, 2 February 2013

Recently Penelope asked me about my dining table and chairs that you could just glimpse in this post. So, here it is! It is a 1950's diner style table, in that it has the chrome legs, with deep teal green vinyl matching chairs.

I'd been casually looking for a nice – and most importantly, small – dinner table for months and months and was chuffed to find this one when I wasn't looking specifically for one. In fact, I was looking for a coffee table, and found this table and chairs set and two mid century book shelves – all bargains, luckily! – instead.

I hadn't really thought of getting something in that 1950's diner style, not because I don't like it – I do – but because I'd only ever seen the longer, rectangular ones before, and they'd just be too big. However, it was the colour of the chairs that instantly got me. I love that shade of greeny teal. It makes me happy just to look at it. The fact it was round confirmed its perfectness for me.

It has become one of Babycat's (many) favoured sleeping spots and John and I are always scooping her off – but if you've ever tried to discipline a feline, you'll understand that it's a never ending task, and more of a life long pastime! I love the subtle line-y pattern on the table top and don't want a million tiny kitty claw dings in it. I've already learned to live with the couple she's made already.

Anyway, it's the perfect size for the two of us, great for a four person dinner party and can comfortably, if cosily, fit five adults – we've tried, and succeeded – and I think it could even fit six if we all promised to be polite with our elbows. For bigger groups we just gather 'round the coffee table, so we're sorted!

I love that it's perfectly round and I don't think I've ever seen a round chrome dinner table before! The colours are so lovely too! What a great find! I'm also loving the bookshelf in the pictures - it's so big and sleek.

What a lovely dining table! I live in a one bedroom apartment so I've been looking for something similar. I found a table I liked and that would fit but it wasn't for sale! Babycat is gorgeous. I love that cats know they are not supposed to sleep somewhere but they just don't care.